Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mrs Orton proposed that they listen to the Queen 's Speech on the radio , Bill 's only protest was to produce a bottle of brandy from his case , open one of his gift books , roll himself a cigarette with gift tobacco , lean back and stare covertly at his son . |
| 2 | Keith proposed and they married in the Philippines . |
| 3 | er sale occurred when they went through the electrical register and asked people who lived in flats whether they wanted a green cone , they did n't even have a garden , let alone a window box but nevertheless erm I the green cone extends ought to be reported on , ought to be encouraged and such like because it is the individual person who is going to recycle using their own garden in their own small way as opposed to transporting the stuff maybe to a waste tip and such like where it has to be dealt with at a an expensive way and if a the best part of the expense of dealing with waste of course is actually to transport and transport throughout the roads and if you do it in your own gardens so much the better and I , I , I should like to er and taking part in the green cone experiment er further experiments like that whereby the individual person is encouraged to do it . |
| 4 | ‘ Take that fork , ’ Ruth directed and they bumped into the private road flanked by an orderly regiment of cypresses that led to the Casa . |
| 5 | The crux of the matter today is that those children were not listened to or believed when they complained to the very people in whose care we had put them for protection . |
| 6 | The crunch came when they moved in the police . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a bit worrying , is n't it ? ’ she murmured as they went into the room . |
| 8 | On March 7 , 1990 , Cetin Emec , a leading journalist on the daily Hürriyet was killed in his car in Istanbul by gunmen who claimed that they belonged to the Turkish Islamic Commandos . |
| 9 | He claimed that they contributed to the ‘ degeneration of a once prestigious avenue ’ . |
| 10 | I guessed that they came from the execution during the second war . |
| 11 | ‘ First things first , ’ Natasha declared as they emerged from the cloakroom . |
| 12 | The runway lights came on , two lines of haloed yellow flares that faded as they converged into the curtains of rain and smoke . |
| 13 | The locked wheels shrieked as they slid along the rails and the train finally shuddered to a halt in a cloud of hissing steam . |
| 14 | She should be safe enough , she reasoned as they moved towards the dance floor where the discotheque was playing . |
| 15 | The stars were fading , the half moon had set ; the land behind floated in the blind blackness , with nicks of silver where the leaves of certain trees shone as they moved in the breeze , as if it were an irregular and battered meteorite floating in the emptiness . |
| 16 | ‘ No inspiration there for you , ’ Morgan commented as they walked to the elevator . |
| 17 | ‘ Remarkably well under the circumstances , ’ Kolchinsky replied as they walked to the lift . |
| 18 | I divined that they spoke of the woman who was on trial for her life in Geneva on the morrow . |
| 19 | The train joggled and they fell on the seat , clasped together . |
| 20 | ‘ Something that might interest you , Sir , ’ he began as they climbed up the steps of the parked trailer . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's a lovely thought , ’ she breathed as they sat in the shade to drink their wine . |
| 22 | They withdrew down a gulley to the beach under fire that intensified as they remained below the cliffs , a sea mist shrouding their signals to the landing craft . |
| 23 | FROM the birth of radio astronomy in 1932 , when Jansky discovered cosmic radio waves and established that they come from the Galactic Centre , it has been clear that something very remarkable is taking place at the core of the Milky Way . |
| 24 | Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ . |
| 25 | Rachel stormed as they emerged into the hot glare of the sun , people everywhere , shoe-shiners on the corners and street pedlars shouting against the rattle of the green trams . |
| 26 | And these were n't any old typefaces , they were Linotype 's which meant that they conformed to the highest typographic standards the industry was likely to require . |
| 27 | you know they went and they tried for the erm flying business . |
| 28 | Belkhuban 's father died while they waited at the border to get here … her brother 's been left behind … she has nothing , but she shared bread and tea with us . |
| 29 | In the first terrible hours of battle , twenty thousand died as they advanced into the German 's heavy artillery and machine guns . |
| 30 | I do n't know what the guards thought when they looked through the closed-circuit television that was always trained on us here and saw three men , heads motionless , looking down fixedly at some spot on the ground , making curious , swinging arm movements . |